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Lud Heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets by Iain Sinclair
Standing there, on a walk along the whole chain of Hawksmoor churches, we notice five minor obelisks in the fenced area beyond Blake’s burial slab. The Old Street obelisk is aligned beyond the boundary wall: the point of force is discovered. We also come … Continue reading
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Sacred Earth Walks with Rebsie
There is no doubt that Skylight Press has a deep interest in ‘Sacred Earth’ mysteries, as evidenced by Alan Richardson’s geo-psychic novel On Winsley Hill, Margaret Randall’s array of sacred Landscapes in Something’s Wrong with the Cornfields, Hugh Fox’s internal … Continue reading
Posted in British Literature, Esoteric, Essays, Literature, Recommended reads
Tagged Alan Richardson, Albion, Ancient History, Britain, British History, Celts, Cheltenham, Cheltonia, Cotswolds, England, English history, esoteric, Folksongs, Gloucestershire, iain sinclair, Landscape, Malverns, mythology, Nature, Psyche Folk, Psychogeography, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Romans, Sacred Earth, Sacred Geography, Saxons, Somerset, Southwest England, Sulis Manouevre
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Iain Sinclair on Skylight Press
Iain Sinclair describes himself as a “British writer, documentarist, film maker, poet, flâneur, metropolitan prophet and urban shaman, keeper of lost cultures and futurologist.” He was born in Cardiff in 1943 but has lived much of his life in Hackney, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Alan Moore, Albion Village Press, Angela Carter, anthologies, Architecture, Arthur Machen, avant garde, BBC, Bookdealers, British Avant Garde, British Literature, British mysteries, British poetry, Cardif, Chaos magic, Charles Baudelaire, Conductors of Chaos, Dining on Stones, documentary, Downriver, Earth Mysteries, Edge of Orison, esoteric, Euclidian, filmmaker, Flaneur, Geography, gnosticism, Gothic, Guy Debord, Hackney, Hawksmoor, History, iain sinclair, J.G. Ballard, Landor's Tower, Lettrists, Ley Lines, Lights out for the Territory, London, London Film School, London Orbital, London Psychogeographical Association, Louis Aragon, Lud Heat, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Moorcock, nomad, Occult, Peter Akroyd, Psychogeography, River Thames, Robert Graves, Shamanism, Sigil magic, Situationists, Suicide Bridge, Surrealism, The Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture, Thomas De Quincey, Underground, Walking tours, Walter Benjamin, white chappell, WIll Self, William Blake
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Stone Tape Shuffle: Audio Reading LP by Iain Sinclair
Skylight Press is thrilled to announce that it will be reissuing the classic Iain Sinclair texts, Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge, as separate volumes – with the first coming out as early as May, 2012. In anticipation of these wonderful … Continue reading
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Tagged Audio Book, books., British fiction, British Literature, British poetry, Downriver, fiction, giorno poetry systems, iain sinclair, Literature, London, LP, Lud Heat, novel, poetry, record, Reissue, Skylight Press, Sound Recording, Spoken Word, Suicide Bridge, Test Centre, white chappell, william s burroughs
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The Passenger by Richard Froude
Identity is so often bound up in where we’ve been, where we’re going, and where we are. Basho once said something to the effect that man travels around seeking so much that the journey itself becomes home. This is never … Continue reading
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